Tigre

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See also: tigre, tigré, and Tigré

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Proper noun

Tigre

  1. A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.

Translations

Noun

Tigre pl (plural only)

  1. A group of agricultural Tigrinya-speaking people in northern Ethiopia.
  2. A group of nomadic Tigre-speaking people in northern Eritrea.

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

Afar

Etymology

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiɡˈre/
  • Hyphenation: Tig‧re

Noun

Tigré f (singulative Tigréyta m or Tigreytá f)

  1. (collective) Tigre people

Declension

Declension of Tigré
absolutive Tigré
predicative Tigré
subjective Tigré
genitive Tigré
Postpositioned forms
l-case Tigrél
k-case Tigrék
t-case Tigrét
h-case Tigréh

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

French

Etymology

From Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (Tigrā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (Idiglat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (Idigna, literally “fast as an arrow”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tigre m

  1. Tigris (river)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin Tigris. First attested in 1300.

    Proper noun

    Tigre m

    1. Tigris (a river in Asia)
      • 1300, Alfonso X of Castile, [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 5:
        O terçeyro rrio he Tigre, et vay contra os de Asiria.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Dos xij rrios Principaes que ſom em tr̃ra de Aſya” (chapter 367), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, pages 145r–145v:
        Outroſi en aq̃la mẽeſma partida doriente. ſon vĩjnt ⁊ dous Rios prinçipaeſ. Et disẽll̃s aſi Cangus. Sogonto. Tiriantreſ. Eys. Camete. et eſte he onoueno. Et a eſte rrio vẽem tãtas marauillas q̃ntas nõ uẽem a / outro Rrio q̃ en eſte mũdo ſeia. Suſa. Cardaça. yrapes. Eriſoris. diapagias. Paccalus. Alibocra, Ariscus, Eleuſer. Auſonis. Tigris. Eriſus. Jordam.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

    Descendants

    • Galician: Tigris
    • Portuguese: Tigre, Tígris

    References

    • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Tigr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

    Portuguese

    Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia pt

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Sumerian 𒀀𒇉?
      Sumerian 𒉌?
      Sumerian 𒁺?
      Sumerian 𒀀?
      Akkadian Idiglatbor.
      Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (t-i-g-r-a)bor.
      Ancient Greek Τίγρης (Tígrēs)bor.
      Old Galician-Portuguese Tigre
      Portuguese Tigre

      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Tigre, from Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (Tigrā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (ÍDIdiqlat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (ÍDIdigna, ÍDIdigina, literally “fast as an arrow”).

      Pronunciation

       

      Proper noun

      Tigre m

      1. Tigris (a river in the Middle East)

      See also

      Wikious
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